Bill Text: NY A05212 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - held for consideration in health [A05212 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05212-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5212
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to imposing a one
          year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 117 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of the foregoing subdi-
     4  visions of this section or any other provision of law, for the  purposes
     5  of  eligibility for medical assistance pursuant to title eleven of arti-
     6  cle five of this chapter or any successor provisions thereof, no  person
     7  shall be eligible therefor unless such person shall have been a resident
     8  of this state for one year or more.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    10  it  shall  have  become a law. Effective immediately the commissioner of
    11  health is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and
    12  take any other measures necessary to implement this act on its effective
    13  date on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02269-01-9
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